Unit One Foreign Culture异域风情
Passage 1 TheOldestCityonEarth
Passage 2 ChristmasinNewZealand
Passage 3 New York’S Chinatown
Passage 4 The Dolphin That Came to Stay
Unit Two Environment环境家园
Passage 1 HowTreesAreKillingOurRivers
Passage 2 Fiddling While the World Bums
Passage 3 Citizens Can Do Something about Climate Change
Passage 4 Trashed Tech:Where Do Old Cell Phones,TVs and PCs Go to Die?
Unit Three Economy经济视野
Passage 1 China’S Booming Economy:Do the Risks Outweigh the Opportunities?
Passage 2 A Global Love Affair
Passage 3 Go Ahead and SaveLet the Govemment Spend
Passage 4 Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St.Bonuses
Unit Four Computer and Internet 网络传媒
Passage 1 The Keyboard Kids
Passage 2 Meet the Chipsons
Passage 3 Digital Pirates Winning Battle with Studios
Passage 4 Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi—Fi Takes to the Air
Unit Five Medicine医药健康
Passage 1 The Sleep Cure
Passage 2 Lifting the Curtain on Depression
Passage 3 AIDS:What It Is Not
Passage 4 Why People Get Sick
Unit Six Social Issues社会长廊
Passage 1 The“Thrill”ofTheft
Passage 2 Latent Corruption and Bribery in the US
Passage 3 Alcohol’S TV Flirtation More than a Threat
Passage 4 BringingUp Adolescents
Unit Seven Sports体育世界
Passage 1 ANational Undertaking——Sports
Passage 2 China’S Olympics(Ⅰ)
Passage 3 China’S Olympics(Ⅱ)
Passage4 SoccerGets Sexy
Unit Eight Entertainment休闲娱乐
Passage 1 Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
Passage 2 The Biggest Summer
Passage 3 Channel Surfin9
Passage 4 Bullfighting in Spain
Unit Nine Literature文学欣赏
Passage 1 Harry Potter:The End Is Here
Passage 2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(Chapter xv)
The Goblin’S Revenge
Passage 3 Review onA Farewell to Arms
Passage 4 A Farewell to Arms(Chapter XV)
Unit Ten Biology生物掠影
Passage 1 The Biotech Century—Playing Ecological Roulette with MotherNature’S Designs
Passage 2 Larks and Owls:The Inner Clock That Rules Our Lives
Passage 3 Here,Kitty,Kitty
Passage 4 Does Biodiversity Matter?
Unit Eleven History and Civilization历史管窥
Passage 1 Napoleonic Europe—1799—1815
Passage 2 Rise ofCivilizations and Empires
Passage 3 The Crusades
Passage 4 Elizabethan Age
Unit Twelve Education 教育天地
Passage 1 The Aims of Education
Passage 2 Head Start
Passage 3 Test Drive
Passage 4 Private School under Siege
Unit Thirteen Great Names 风云人物
Passage 1 Little Sister of the Poor
Passage 2 Julius Caesar
Passage 3 Dr. Carl G. Jung: Pioneer in Analytic Psychology
Passage 4 The Kennedy Family and Classical Themes
Unit Fourteen Archaeology 考古寻秘
Passage 1 Discovering the New Rome
Passage 2 The Treasures of King Tut s Tomb
Passage 3 The Trojan Horse and Helen of Troy: Fact or Fiction?
Passage 4 Turning Points: Maya Archeology Comes of Age
Unit Fifteen Space and Discovery 宇宙探索
Passage 1 The Sun——Living with a Stormy Star
Passage 2 The New History of Black Holes:Co-evolution Dramatically Alters Dark Reputation
Passage 3 Exotic Earths
Passage 4 Auroras :What Powers the Greatest Light Show on Earth?
Unit Sixteen Philosophy 哲学经典
Passage 1 Nietzsche
Passage 2 Plato
Passage 3 Hegel
Passage 4 Existentialism and Sartre
Keys to Exercises 练习答案
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